Forza Motorsport 7
•
Page 8

@secombe oh, really? I might just do that! Although I think if I don't barge through that one guy who goes five seconds a lap faster than everyone else will be so far down the road by the time I get to second that I'll be stuck doing roughly similar lap times and not catching up. I'll definitely give it a go though.

I'm on the Formula E series, which is cool, though even these can't keep their feet planted. I'm not sure how they are in real life but I expected an open wheel racer like that to be fairly grippy.

Anyway, I bumped it up to long races and have had two races - one I slowly picked my way through and ended up taking first a couple of laps before the end. The other I slowly picked my way through, and when I got to third about halfway through the race the other two were already 20 seconds up the road, so I dunno. It's much better, but I'm still not sure what the point of the SP format is in this, it's not racing so it's not all that satisfying.

I feel like I'm supposed to drop the difficulty and just trounce the competition, like that's the way they want you to play it.

Yup, I've always had that problem in Forza, on Medium I end up way out in front by the second lap, anything harder than that the slighest mistake makes me come last, I almost wish there was an option for some rubberbanding to make it closer every race.

I know it's not appropriate in simulation games but I kind of love the way The Crew/NFS seem to do it where the AI is super aggressive and good up until the end of the last lap, when you have a decent chance to make a comeback and win.

(Edit: By 'good' I mean they can win, not that they're smart or realistic)

Really, really struggling with the difficulty level, itís killing the enjoyment of the Forza Cup for me. Iím on the second tier of events now, on ĎHighly Skilledí I was lapping the shortish Prague track 8 seconds per lap quicker than the Drivatars (its only a 1:30ish lap!) Yet on Horizon 3, Highly Skilled is a fairly serious challenge for me even with the more forgiving handling model. The next level up sees the first few cars just drive off and it takes some serious barging to gain enough early ground to stay in touch.

Im no driving god either, usually the very definition of average on leaderboards in fact.

On Highly Skilled Iím now doing ĎLongí races and rolling slowly down the start straight until Iím dead last, then every overtake has to be clean otherwise I give the place back (and clean isnít easy due to the appalling driving standards of the Drivatars). That at the very least makes the first 2/3rds of the race entertaining before I pass the leader.

Seems there's a fairly significant XP exploit at the moment. The Dodge Ram vip car has a 7500xp per race bonus on the test track. So with the new time limit mode that you can select for free play races, you can just keep re-running a 30s race on the test track.

Always feel conflicted about doing stuff like that. Seems like cheating. But with micro transactions incoming to help obtain some of the cars locked behind the grind, it could be a useful alternative.

Suppose it allows you to get some benefit out of the misleading and otherwise pointless VIP pass.

Are microtransactions definitely coming? There's none in the game as it stands right now.

I tried online last night - what a disaster! Tracks like Rio and Long Beach are just a series of pile ups, and I was getting bouts of lag as well. I wouldn't mind but it does this weird thing where all of a sudden my game will go into slow motion and then suddenly speed back up to normal, so I flew straight into someone's back end as a result.

I read a few bits and bobs on the Forza forums about how the game appears to be designed with them in mind - those crates and certain "boost bonuses" (sorry I can't remember what they're called exactly in game) only being temporary rather than permanent, and how much grinding is required to unlock stuff.

Apologies my post above reads as if they're a fact while I was merely assuming things, although I would expect certain buy-to-win mechanics to appear once the cheapskate edition releases this week.

Also what I find pretty cheeky is that apparently the Ultimate edition includes all car DLC for the next 6 months only - I'd say many people didn't read that small print and will be massively disappointed, but didn't they do this with previous titles too?

Iím not a graphics whore in the slightest but I donít think itís that pretty. The AI cars look terrible (game breaking immersion terrible), particularly when itís anything but sunny, itís like they all have matte paint and are completely uninfluenced by the environment.

Interesting to see what DF comes up with as the comparison shots Iíve seen but FM6 ahead by some margin.

@drawfull interesting. Did you fiddle with the Forza settings? I find almost all the cars in Forza very slippy, even with track cars it seems the fastest way round a corner is to pile into it and control the back end as you go through.

I donít mind them lowering the amount of credits you get tbh. Forza 6 just spunked money at you like it had the gush; whereas this sounds like it harkens back to the good old GT2 days of riding round in a banger until you could afford a slightly upgraded sweet ride. The limited edition cars sound like the old GT Used Cars section too, which is kinda cool.

I'm still finding I own a lot of cars. I've done maybe... six series, and I think I own three times that number of cars. I hate it when I'm drowning in vehicles because they don't feel special at all. FH3 I've barely touched most of the cars in my garage, whereas in F1 I drive the same car for hours on end and I got excited to move from McLaren to Toro Rosso because the cars felt pretty different.

StarchildHypocrethes wrote:
I donít mind them lowering the amount of credits you get tbh. Forza 6 just spunked money at you like it had the gush; whereas this sounds like it harkens back to the good old GT2 days of riding round in a banger until you could afford a slightly upgraded sweet ride. The limited edition cars sound like the old GT Used Cars section too, which is kinda cool.

Horses for courses and all that...but as I become increasingly time poor I want to just have fun. I have a job for the grind IRL!

@ModoX Yes. There's a post on the previous page with a link to the official forums. If you follow that link, there's another link within that that takes you to the t300 settings I'm using and tips for other wheels too: